Miss Pennsylvania USA 2012 Sheena Monnin has resigned from her beauty queen role in the Miss Universe Organization. She claims that she witnessed "fraudulent" behavior by officials at the Miss USA Pageant this past weekend where she alleges the top five finalists were already selected "before the show ever started."

The 27-year-old told her Facebook followers that another contestant "saw a folder lying open to a page that said 'FINAL SHOW Telecast, June 3, 2012' and she saw the places for Top 5 already filled in."

She explains her decision for "voluntarily, completely, and utterly" removing herself from Donald Trump's pageant system in another statement that reads:

"In good conscience I can no longer be affiliated in any way with an organization I consider to be fraudulent, lacking in morals, inconsistent, and in many ways trashy. I do not support this system in any way. In my heart I believe in honesty, fair play, a fair opportunity, and high moral integrity, none of which in my opinion are part of this pageant system any longer."

Miss Universe, however, revealed that the former beauty queen is not being completely honest. On top of calling her allegations "false," the organization released an email in which Monnin criticized the inclusion of transgendered contestants. It reads:

"I refuse to be part of a pageant system that has so far and so completely removed itself from its foundational principles as to allow and support natural born males to compete in it. This goes against ever (sic) moral fiber of my being."

Ugh! She had to go there, didn't she? Such a shame! Especially after Olivia Culpo, the contestant that was crowned Miss USA on Sunday night, expressed her support for such equality.

We'd like to consider her side of the story, but not sure if we can after THAT ignorant statement.

Trump has announced he plans on suing Monnin over the "ridiculous" accusations and added that the organization doesn't even care who the final contestants are. He thinks "she's angry about losing," but made sure to state "she didn't deserve to be in the top 15."

If that's her attitude toward equality, we don't think so either. After all, REAL beauty comes from within!

GOOD FOR HER!!!!!!!!! Unfortuantely trumpster will be giving her shit about this for the rest of his life. He does not know when to shut up harrassing someone. He's a fucking pig and needs to crawl into a hole and die!!!

Sweetie, you entered a contest that has you parading around in a bikini and answering dumb questions so you can be judged against other girls for some archaic notion of beauty. You have debased yourself by entering in the first place - doesn't it seem a bit silly to say that the competition is trashy?

yes real beauty comes from within but when you're born a MAN you should not be allowed to compete in a natural woman's contest for women with no alterations. it has nothing to do with equality. if the person was born a man, they cannot compete as a woman. it's that simple…just like if an athlete was taking steroids, they shouldn't be allowed to compete because they are altering their state an therefore going against the rules. the miss USA pageant isn't a right as a human, it's a privilege…we're not taking away a transgendered persons rights by telling a man he can't be in an all woman's pageant. that's unfair to everyone else. i believe in equality and letting gay people marry, but you can't make things unfair for everyone else too.

It's hard to have an opinion on the transgender issue. On the one hand, the contestant is a woman in every way except biological birth so if it is important to her to enter and it makes her happy, then she should have that right. But on the other hand the other contestants may feel really bad if they lost to a man if that is their mindset. Miss Pennsylvania will get tons and tons of attention from this and wins anyway.

Re: Linds – It is not like being born male gives an advantage - quite the opposite, they have a much harder road. The real argument about transgendered people is in athletics, where if an athlete is born male, there are muscular differences that do in fact give an advantage. But in these silly, demeaning competitions, who cares?

it's funny how she is resigning AFTER she competed and was trying to get in the top 5. if she was really outraged, she would've turned in her crown the minute she suspected fraudulent activity… i think it's that she is pissed she didn't make it far…

This media-whore is just trying to take a page from the gospel according to Carrie Prejean. She want to become a darling for Christian conservatives and try to ride that wagon to being a star. Since her body wasn't good enough to do it, she has decided that "moral outrage" will be her ticket. If she was really so offended, then she would have dropped her crown BEFORE she lost the title. Now it just shows her to be a whiney opportunistic b***h. I am not a big Trump fan, but he should sue her. She is making this statement based on something that someone else told her they saw? Say who told you and let's get some corroboration. Otherwise, she hopefully won't even get 15 seconds of fame and will fade back into a Pennsylvania hillside.

I'm all for equality for all humans. but i think the only problem with a trans woman being in this competition is… that her body is change by plastic surgery. now correct me if I'm wrong but with these pageants the woman must be natural, meaning they don't have implants or botox or anything. so id say it shouldn't have anything to do with being transgendered, but to do with the fact that their womanly bodies have been constructed. and in all fairness if they are allowed to be in the pageant so should other woman who have had plastic surgery, fair is fair.

Re: isolde – that's true, but it is their choice to get plastic surgery to alter their body. any plastic surgery should not be allowed in the competition…it's a rule and it shouldn't be changed just for certain people whether they're transgender or not. althogh i don't really care…i just think it's unfair for people to immediately bash this girl for voicing an opinion that a lot of us share and it doesn't mean she's discriminatory against transgender people or that she hates equality.

Eh. The transgendered issue isn't quite as clear cut for me as it is for you, Perez. For thinking someone "ignorant" for disagreeing with you on it is kind of ignorant as well. On another note, although I believe beauty pageants pretty degrading to women, in general, if Miss Pennsylvania has a qualm with it, than she can air her grievances. However, she shouldn't expect any of us to care without evidence.

A rigged pageant is a separate issue from one which might allow for transgendered persons. The two issues ought not get confused. Whether one agrees or disagrees with transsexual participation is different than whether the pageant is fixed. One day you may just get a transsexual contestant noticing the same thing which Monnin is alleging. So is there a paper trail given to producers? Someone must know that on the show. And WHICH other contestant told Monnin what she saw? Its heresay or third party info (which just happened to be 100% correct). But who is the contestant who actually saw this list?

I believe that this is a woman's contest and not a man's. The transgender will always be a man in actuality, even if he/she isn't in mind or after surgery. So, I say that if you ever were a man physically, then it should not be allowed.

She shouldn't want to compete with women who could have possibly been male genetically and physically (between the legs) anyway. Go Sheena! And I'm sick of these gay bastards wanting transgendered/transsexual people competing. If you are BORN A MAN, you can be made to LOOK LIKE A WOMAN but it is unfair to REAL WOMEN to LOSE OUT to someone who BOUGHT what they were BORN with. A transsexual is not born that way. They pay for that. I support gay rights because I believe people are born gay. I also support transgendered/transsexual rights, but allowing them to compete in pageants with natural born women is a stretch, especially since it's a beauty contest.

"yes real beauty comes from within but when you're born a MAN you should not be allowed to compete in a natural woman's contest for women with no alterations. it has nothing to do with equality. if the person was born a man, they cannot compete as a woman. it's that simple…just like if an athlete was taking steroids, they shouldn't be allowed to compete because they are altering their state an therefore going against the rules. the miss USA pageant isn't a right as a human, it's a privilege…we're not taking away a transgendered persons rights by telling a man he can't be in an all woman's pageant. that's unfair to everyone else. i believe in equality and letting gay people marry, but you can't make things unfair for everyone else too."

This.. a million times this. Also, had you been watching, when Olivia Culpo made her response about the transgender question you can clearly see in her body language that she gave that answer to please, not because she believes in it. It's a contest, these people are made to say things that they don't truly believe in to sway the votes. I'm definitely not against equality, I'm all for it. Perez you need to look at this situation from all angles.

Please explain to me what is wrong with her opinion of not wanting transgender persons in the pageant? Do we have to be politically correct in ALL areas in order to win approval of the press and other media outlets? Would any of you approve of Chaz Bono getting into great physical condition and winning a Mr. Universe contest? Seriously?? I find it refreshing that someone with so much to lose will stand up for what she believes in.

Why is everybody ignoring the fraud or rigged allegation in favor of the side show distraction of Miss Penn not wanting transsexuals in the pageant? She states that she quit due to what she heard or witnessed the day of the actual pageant. If she had wanted to quit due to the transsexual thing, she could have done so a month before the actual pageant. Don't let the possibility that the show is rigged get lost in this other issue of the transsexual thing. With or without transsexuals, the pageant may or may not be rigged or otherwise pre-determined. Can we all find out that first and then have a mud wrestle over what each contestant has inside of her bikini bottoms?